Quotes about Authority

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

God's word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there's no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Words are the verbal embodiment of power.

At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The saber we've been entrusted to bear is not lifted with our hands; it is raised by our words.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.